SpaceX Seeks Customers for DragonLab Spaceship
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“We’re committed to flying it,” Max Vozoff, SpaceX’s Dragon product manager, said in an Oct. 29 interview here. Vozoff said SpaceX’s message to attendees of the DragonLab user conference would be pretty straightforward: “It’s a commercial mission flying with or without you,” he said. “There are slots available if you want to come along.”
“So far, SpaceX has lined up at least one customer for the first DragonLab flight planned for 2010. Although Vozoff would not tell Space News anything about its anchor customer, SpaceX told other space officials here that it had signed up a classified U.S. government customer for DragonLab’s debut.”
LOCKHEED MARTIN PRESS RELEASE
DENVER, April 23rd, 2008 – Lockheed Martin has submitted a series of innovative proposals to the Department of Defense designed to advance state-of-the-art technologies in support of fielding rapid and responsive space systems for the warfighter.
The proposals were submitted to the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.in response to three Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) released in March that address a range of capabilities in the ORS mission area. These include responsive spacecraft bus and payloads technologies; a multi-mission low earth orbit modular space vehicle; and responsive launch, range and system architecture and modeling technologies. Lockheed Martin responded to each of these BAAs with innovation and end-to-end solutions.
“The need to design, build and deploy responsive space systems that provide timely data to the warfighter is a top priority for our customer,” said Phil Bowen, director of Surveillance and Intelligence Systems at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. “Our responsive space capabilities combine Lockheed Martin’s proven experience and leading edge technologies in providing affordable and responsive solutions and we look forward to collaborating with the ORS office and our industry teammates on this important initiative.”
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SpaceX will launch a DOD satellite aboard its Falcon 1 rocket in June. The Falcon will carry the Operationally Responsive Space Office’s first jumpstart mission.
The ORS payload will be SpaceDev’s Trailblazer spacecraft bus, originally developed under a Missile Defense Agency contract. Trailblazer will demonstrate a flexible, modular commercial bus design using off the shelf components.
Continue reading ‘SpaceX to launch DOD payload; hopes third time is a charm’
